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" Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. "

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" Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. "

" Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. "

Francis Quarles

" It's very hard to know what wisdom is. "

" The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. "

Walter Benjamin

" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. "

" I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out. "

" If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. "

" Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. "

" Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head. "

" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "

" Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "

" Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. "

" The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. "

" Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. "

" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all. "

Michelle Bachelet

" It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. "

" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "

" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "

Terry Pratchett

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

Bertrand Russell

" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. "

" Man is only great when he acts from passion. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. "

" I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. "